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Your CEO wants to be a social media influencer. Is it cool or cringy?
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Your CEO wants to be a social media influencer. Is it cool or cringy?

Vladimir Godnik | Fstop | Getty Images For years, Braden Wallake has posted everything from business lessons to animal pictures on his LinkedIn page. A fateful midweek post on a late-summer day stopped the marketing executive in his tracks. Wallake shared a teary-eyed selfie with a message about his feelings after laying off staff. Just […]

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Former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick leaves Meta board after eight-month stint
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Former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick leaves Meta board after eight-month stint

Dina Powell McCormick, who was a member of President Donald Trump’s first administration, has resigned from Meta’s board of directors. Powell McCormick, who previously spent 16 years working at Goldman Sachs, notified Meta of her resignation on Friday, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing did not disclose why McCormick was stepping down from […]

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Google’s boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees
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Google’s boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images With the AI talent wars heating up between companies like OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic, one way Google has been competing is by aggressively rehiring […]

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Sheryl Sandberg says corporate climate ‘one of the worst’ she has ever seen
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Sheryl Sandberg says corporate climate ‘one of the worst’ she has ever seen

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg warned that public displays of misogyny and “tech bro” rhetoric are damaging corporate culture at the world’s biggest companies. “Rhetoric matters, who says what matters,” Sandberg told CNBC Senior Media & Tech Correspondent Julia Boorstin in the latest episode of the “CNBC Changemakers and Power Players” podcast. Sandberg’s comments come […]

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From Llamas to Avocados: Meta’s shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion
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From Llamas to Avocados: Meta’s shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so optimistic last year about his company’s Llama family of artificial intelligence models that he predicted they would become the […]

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Week in review: Stocks rise, Meta gets real on metaverse, and Salesforce bounces
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Week in review: Stocks rise, Meta gets real on metaverse, and Salesforce bounces

Stocks eked out gains Friday and closed the week higher after the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation gauge added to the case for an interest rate cut next week. For the week, the S & P 500 rose 0.3%, while the Nasdaq added nearly 1%. Both indexes logged back-to-back weekly gains. The Dow gained roughly 0.5%. […]

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Mark Zuckerberg comes to his senses on metaverse spending, and we’re thrilled
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Mark Zuckerberg comes to his senses on metaverse spending, and we’re thrilled

Is the “year of efficiency” Mark Zuckerberg back at Meta Platforms ? Shares of the social media giant rallied more than 5% to $676 each at Thursday’s highs after Bloomberg reported that Zuckerberg is set to reduce metaverse spending up to 30%. The metaverse group, which works on the company’s virtual “Horizon World” environment and […]

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Meta stock climbs 4% on report of planned metaverse cuts
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Meta stock climbs 4% on report of planned metaverse cuts

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repositioned the social media giant as an AI company. Vincent Feuray | AFP | Getty Images Meta Platforms shares popped about 4% higher on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg was looking to make significant cuts to the company’s metaverse resources. Bloomberg said that executives have considered budget […]

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Design executive behind ‘Liquid Glass’ is leaving Apple
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Design executive behind ‘Liquid Glass’ is leaving Apple

File: Then Apple Creative Director Alan Dye celebrates the launch of the July Issue at the new WIRED office on June 24, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Kimberly White | Getty Images Apple‘s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta, in a notable shift of executive talent in Silicon Valley. The iPhone […]

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Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup
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Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup

Yann LeCun, known as one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and one of the first AI visionaries to join the company then known as Facebook, is leaving Meta. LuCun said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that he plans to create a startup that specializes in a kind of AI technology that researchers […]

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